Karla Agregado

Malicious schemes promising free or discounted items are effective because everyone likes a great offer. More so, if the offered item is a much-talked about product like Windows 8. Last year, we unraveled some fake Windows 8 generators, fake Windows 8 antivirus programs, and phishing email that surfaced right after the platform’s release. Though it’s…

The much-anticipated 2012 London Olympics is set to kick off this Friday. As the event draws nearer, we expect to see online attacks riding on different Olympics-related activities. Sure enough, we saw this interesting Facebook wall post regarding the said event: The site, hosted on the domain liveolympictickets(dot)com, appears to offer tickets for sale. Moreover,…

Following the fake versions of Instagram, Angry Birds Space, and Farm Frenzy apps, we recently spotted a website offering different fake Skype mobile apps for Android. But based on our analysis, these apps are actually malware that run on older Symbian versions or Android devices installed with apps that enable execution of Java MIDlet. Once…

Last month, we have seen cybercriminals use the popularity of apps like Instagram and Angry Birds Space to deliver malware on Android phones. This time, we spotted the same social engineering tactic using Adobe‘s name. This webpage is also found to be hosted on Russian domains, similar to the fake Instagram and Angry Birds Space…

Recently, Facebook announced its acquisition of Instagram— a popular photo-sharing smartphone app, which also released an Android version almost a week ago. It was reported that Facebook paid approximately $1 billion (£629m) in cash and stock for the said takeover. Cybercriminals, soon enough, started to take advantage of Instagram‘s popularity. We discovered a spoofed webpage…